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The Fourth Edition is again based on Robert Kimbrough's meticulously re-edited text. Missing words have been restored and the entire novel has been repunctuated in accordance with Conrad's style. The result is the first published version of Heart of Darkness that allows readers to hear Marlow's voice as Conrad heard it when he wrote the story. "Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with a generous collection of maps and photographs that bring the Belgian Congo to life. Textual materials, topically arranged, address nineteenth-century views of imperialism and racism and include autobiographical writings by Conrad on his life in the Congo. New to the Fourth Edition is an excerpt from Adam Hochschild's recent book, King Leopold's Ghost, as well as writings on race by Hegel, Darwin, and Galton. "Criticism" includes a wealth of new materials, including nine contemporary reviews and assessments of Conrad and Heart of Darkness and twelve recent essays by Chinua Achebe, Peter Brooks, Daphne Erdinast-Vulcan, Edward Said, and Paul B. Armstrong, among others. Also new to this edition is a section of writings on the connections between Heart of Darkness and the film Apocalypse Now by Louis K. Greiff, Margot Norris, and Lynda J. Dryden. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Introduction

ix

The Text of Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

3

(75)

Textual Appendix

78

(21)

Textual History and Editing Principles

79

(3)

Robert Kimbrough

Textual Variants

82

(17)

Backgrounds and Contexts

Imperialism and the Congo

99

(109)

Encyclopaedia Britannica • Congo Free State (Tenth Edition, 1902)

99

(20)

[European Reaction to Leopold's Abuses] (Eleventh Edition, 1910)

113

(6)

[The Sacred Mission of Civilization]

119

(1)

King Leopold II

An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II

120

(11)

George Washington Williams

The Congo Report

131

(29)

Roger Casement

[Property and Trade versus Forced Production]

160

(11)

Edmund D. Morel

Meeting Mr. Kurtz

171

(10)

Adam Hochschild

[Conrad, Casement, and the Congo Atrocities]

181

(12)

Alan Simmons

Illustrations

193

(15)

Nineteenth-Century Attitudes Toward Race

208

(34)

[The African Character]

208

(4)

G. W. F. Hegel

On the Races of Man

212

(6)

Charles Darwin

[Are Humans One Race or Many?]

218

(6)

Alfred Russel Wallace

The Comparative Worth of Different Races

224

(5)

Francis Galton

[Social Progress and the Rivalry of the Races]

229

(4)

Benjamin Kidd

Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Empire

233

(9)

Peter Edgerly Firchow

Conrad in the Congo

242

(37)

[Imagining Africa]

242

(8)

Joseph Conrad

Selected Letters En Route to the Congo

242

(8)

[Introduction to ``The Congo Diary'' and the ``Up-river Book'']

250

(3)

Zdzislaw Najder

The Congo Diary

253

(26)

Joseph Conrad

Up-river Book

261

(2)

Selected Letters from Africa and After

263

(10)

Geography and Some Explorers

273

(6)

The Author on Art and Literature

279

(28)

Preface to The Nigger of the ``Narcissus''

279

(28)

Joseph Conrad

Books

283

(3)

Henry James: An Appreciation

286

(2)

Preface to Youth

288

(2)

Preface to A Personal Record

290

(2)

Selected Letters

292

(15)

Criticism

Contemporary Responses

307

(19)

From Academy and Literature

307

(2)

Edward Garnett

Unsigned Review • From the Manchester Guardian

309

(1)

Unsigned Review • From the Times Literary Supplement

310

(1)

Unsigned Review • From the Athenaeum

311

(1)

From the Speaker

312

(1)

John Masefield

The New Novel

313

(1)

Henry James

Joseph Conrad: A Note

314

(2)

E. M. Forster

A Personal Rememberance

316

(7)

Ford Madox Ford

Joseph Conrad

323

(3)

Virginia Woolf

Essays in Criticism

326

(158)

The Journey Within

326

(10)

Albert Guerard

An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness

336

(13)

Chinua Achebe

[Impressionism and Symbolism in Heart of Darkness]

349

(16)

Ian Watt

Heart of Darkness and Racism

365

(11)

Hunt Hawkins

An Unreadable Report: Conrad's Heart of Darkness

376

(10)

Peter Brooks

[Imperialism, Impressionism, and the Politics of Style]

386

(10)

Patrick Brantlinger

[Primitivism and the African Woman in Heart of Darkness]

396

(9)

Marianna Torgovnick

The Women of Heart of Darkness

405

(10)

Jeremy Hawthorn

The Failure of Metaphysics

415

(7)

Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan

Two Visions in Heart of Darkness

422

(7)

Edward W. Said

[Reading, Race, and Representing Others]

429

(15)

Paul B. Armstrong

Cannibalising Traditions: Representation and Critique in Heart of Darkness